Cannot send emails. Emails coming in but when I send they are just being held in outbox. Fix report says smtp error

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Completely disable your anti-virus and firewall and try again.

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Tried that. Did not work.

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Are the SMTP settings correct? What is the fix report error?

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pop3 ok but smtp error trying to fix but not working either

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nothing. just little circle running round. no log

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Who is your email provider?

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11:46:15     "The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. 

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Was Tiscali now Talk Talk

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Try these settings in SMTP

Host: smtp.talktalk.net
Port: 465
Security Policy:  Use SSL/TLS on special port (legacy)

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You can also try

Host: smtp.talktalk.net
Port: 25
Security Policy:  Use SSL/TLS if available

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Actually it must have been a server fault cos it rectified later that day. Been ok since